The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most eye-catching photos, Scotland welcomes Poinsettia season, Justin Bieber gets drenched, and more

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Carolyn Spray holds one of her many Poinsettia plants ready to be dispatched for the Christmas season at the Pentland Plants garden centre on November 23,2015 in Loanhead, Scotland.
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Cows eat pine needles in a snow-covered forest in Opakoa, Spain.
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Carolyn Spray holds one of many Poinsettia plants ready to be dispatched for the Christmas season at the Pentland Plants garden center in Loanhead, Scotland.
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A young girl crosses the railway tracks in front of Macedonian police officers who face demonstrating migrants as they try to cross the border.
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A person holds an umbrella in the snowfall in Beijing.
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Chickens at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Hefei, China.
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Justin Bieber performs during the 2015 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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Eight-year-old Joyce Njeri jumps off of a pile of discarded plastic at the garbage dump where she works in Nairobi, Kenya.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ben Curtis))

The Edmonton Eskimo Cheer Team performs during the CFL Western Final football game against the Calgary Stampeders in Edmonton, Canada.
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A child laborer carries soil in Mandalay, Myanmar.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Hkun Lat))

A boat on the mouth of the Doce River, which was flooded with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst in Regencia Village, Brazil.
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A deer runs close to the United States border with Canada near Havre, Montana.
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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.